“I want to pass on my appreciation to everyone I have had the pleasure of working with in my past three years at the Brisbane Lions,” Schwab said in a statement.

“The responsibility to help build the current Brisbane Lions list has been both challenging and exciting and I will watch with great interest the development of the team and club in the coming years, and look forward to the seeing the Lions once again being a successful team in the AFL.” Brisbane CEO Greg Swann said they had not set a deadline to find a replacement. Schwab, who coached at Hawthorn from 2000-04, joined Brisbane in 2013 and had previously held other roles at the AFL, including director of coaching and chief executive of AFL Victoria.